Dr Liz Tilly

Senior Lecturer in Social Care

Email address:Liz.Tilly@wlv.ac.ukPhone number: 01902 51 8674Location: Wolverhampton Faculty: Faculty of Education Health and WellbeingSchool/Institute: Institute of Public Health, Social Work and CareAreas of expertise: Learning Disability/ Participatory/Inclusive Research and Voluntary Sector

About

Liz has been a part time lecturer in FEHW since April 2013, contributing to teaching on the social work and social care degrees. She is an active member in founding and developing the Wolverhampton Intellectual Disabilities Network (WIDeN), the university learning disability special interest group.

Previously Liz has worked in the voluntary sector as a chief executive of a voluntary organisation that provides services and opportunities to people with a learning disability.

She has qualifications in learning disability including a B.Ed. and M.Med.Sci. and an M.A. in Applied Social Research. She studied at Norah Fry Research Centre, University of Bristol, and completed a PhD about people with a learning disability who fall through the net of statutory provision. Liz has a particular interest in community inclusion, person-centered approaches, parents with a learning disability, health and well-being and advocacy.

Research interests

Participatory and inclusive research with people with a learning disability.

Qualifications

PhD, Disability Studies, University of Bristol

MA, Applied Social Research, University of Birmingham

Diploma Newcastle College (Distance learning), Life coaching

Diploma Newcastle College (Distance learning), Performance coaching

M. Med. Sci., Mental disability studies, University of Birmingham

Institute of Management Diploma, Sandwell College, Management

Institute of Management NVQ level 5,Sandwell College, Management

B.Ed. University of Nottingham, Matlock College of Higher Education Mental handicap

Publications

Publications

Articles published in peer reviewed journals

Tilly, L. (2013). "'I ain't been bothered to go': managing health problems in people with a learning disability who live without support." Diversity and Equality in Health and Care 10(4): 223-230

BJLD, Impact of research – Autumn 2013

Money Friends and Making Ends Meet Research Group (2012). "Having Friends - They help you when you're stuck." British Journal of Learning Disabilities Special Issue: The research and work of learning disabled people with their allies and supporters 40(2): 83-164.

Tilly, E. (2008). "Enabling People with Learning Disabilities to Manage Their Own Health and Well-being." Medicine, Conflict and Survival 24(S 1): S108-S113.

Challenges that Affect a Small Group of People with Mild Learning Disabilities." Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice 5(2).

Practitioner Publications and Reports

Those marked with a * are co-written with people with a learning disability

Tilly, L. and Building Bridges Research Group (2015). "Being Researchers for the First Time: Reflections on the development of an inclusive research group." British Journal of Learning Disabilities 43(2): 121-127.

*Money Friends and Making Ends Meet Research Group (2011). "Making ends meet - what it's like for people with learning difficulties living in the community on low incomes." Community Living25(2): 16-17.

Money Friends and Making Ends Meet Research Group (2011b). Money, Friends and Making Ends Meet Final Report. Sandwell Building Bridges Training

*Tilly, L., B. Haddock, et al. (2008). "'We don't want to live with this in our community'." Community Living 22(2): 20-21.

Options for Life (2007). Making Voices Heard.

Conference Presentations

Oral presentations/seminars/workshops

Nordic Network of Disability Research Bergen, Citizenship and the experience of applying for disability welfare benefits. Able to Include; The role of technology in enabling inclusion and citizenship, May 2015

Advocacy for people with a learning disability who are victims of domestic violence, Practitioners National Conference London, January 2015.

Support for parents with a learning disability, WTPN regional conference Birmingham, November 2014

Successive removals (children) and people with a learning disability, Practitioners National Conference Nottingham, October 2014

Inclusive research – research findings, Norah Fry Research Centre, University of Bristol, December 2013

Mate crime and people with a learning disability, Practitioners National Conference Nottingham, September 2013

People with a learning disability and relationships, BILD national conference Updatable not me!, March 2013

Inclusive research – theory and practice, Norah Fry Research Centre, University of Bristol, March 2013

Support for parents with a learning disability, WTPN national conference Birmingham, February 2013

Co-presented on experiences and impact of mate crime, Disability Hate and Mate Crime conference Birmingham City University, April 2012